No. 13 *Forward*, April 5 (March 23), 1905

Source: Lenin Collection, vol. 26
Pages: 337-337

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CORRECTIONS TO V. VOROVSKII'S ARTICLE "LIBERAL PRINCIPLES 
AND REACTIONARY HABITS."
No. 13 *FORWARD*, APRIL 5 (MARCH 23), 1905¹

... True, these millions and this fear do not permit our liberal 
schemers to understand the historical inevitability of the revolutionary 
development of the working class; but one could nonetheless demand 
of them a somewhat greater consistency [and sincerity]. If they do not 
recognize the spontaneous necessity of the growth and development of 
the labor movement in the direction of revolutionism, and therefore do 
not wish to recognize the working class's right to such development—
that is, the right to meetings, strikes, assemblies, and so forth—then 
[let them be consistent and] in that case THEY will end up by openly 
calling upon the reactionary power of the police state against the 
revolutionary influence of social-democracy.

... This path will lead the workers "to general unification within the 
country and organic connection with the international organization of 
workers"; on this path they will achieve all the rights necessary to them—
including the right to meetings and strikes—[without reckoning with the 
"memoranda" of the Messrs. Glazmers, without reckoning with whether or 
not their "principled" employers agree to this "in principle"],—and not 
only the right of free struggle against the bourgeoisie, but also the "right" 
to create for themselves a socialist society on the ruins of the bourgeois 
[regime] order.

¹ The article cites the "Memorandum of S. P. Glazmer, Chairman of the St. Petersburg 
Society for the Promotion of the Improvement and Development of Factory and Plant Industry."

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